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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]

… clubs and political organizations. Both resistant and elegant, new ranges of glasses were produced for the ritual of toasting. Special toastmaster glasses and custom-made glassware become part of clubs’ identity-sustaining paraphernalia. … tastes and social standing, or political identities. Objects > Food & Drink Keywords Glass Tableware drinking Toasting ritual In the course of the seventeenth century, toasting, or health-drinking as it was known, evolved into a ritual that spread across all social categories. The custom …

Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… & Drinking Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Conviviality Toasting Speech-making Song Mirth Hilarity Mutuality Pleasure Conviviality was a term used to describe a particular form … emphasized eating and drinking accompanied by a series of ritualized forms of entertainment such as collective singing, toasting, and speech-making. The term ’ convivial ’ derives from the Latin term convivialis (pertaining to a feast), and … ideas, than the pleasure of hearing one’s views accepted and reflected back by others (Newman 202-230, chapter on ‘Toasting’ ). 4 . Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention and Community 1762-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… 9   They sought alignment with the military commander John Churchill, 1 st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), toasting his daughters and admitting his military colleagues as members, even as he himself remained aloof from … at 89 Holly Bush Steps, Hampstead (relatively near the former site of the Upper Flask Tavern), and there is a Kit-Cat toasting glass in the collection of the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. The Kneller portraits of the Kit-Cat …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… sociability that emphasized shared experience through more ritualized forms of entertainment such as collective singing, toasting, and speech-making. This went hand-in-hand with a substantial print industry dedicated to publishing the words …